AQ and FamilySearch

Being FamilySearch Certified, allows Ancestral Quest 15 to link and sync with FamilySearch Family Tree (FSFT) and is listed in their app gallery under four products. 1) Ancestral Quest for Windows, 2) Ancestral Quest for Mac, 3) Ancestral Quest Basics (free) for Windows, and 4) Ancestral Quest Basics (free) for Mac.

This particular feature allows you to add family lines as well as search their current Family Tree database for additional family members currently not in your own files. 

Additionally, you can bring over notes, sources, pictures and/or documents already there. For a newbie or someone who has done considerable research, these features are a way to get started or supplement your own research.

Seasoned researchers know the value of documenting their research, however, someone who is beginning their ancestral journal may not understand its value. Adding these documents to one's own research strengthens the validity of the family names added to the file.

If one has new found documents, they can also be added to the FSFT to aid in proving family links in a tree. We have a number of tutorials to aid an individual in learning how to complete any of these tasks.

• Have a tree on FSFT, and wish to add additional lines from FSFT into one's file, watch how here,  Importing Family Lines 
• Moving notes to FSFT or from FSFT, watch this tutorial, Syncing Notes  
• Moving photos and/or documents, watch this tutorial, Memories Manager
• Learning how to take advantage of the hints in Ancestral Quest, check out, Tree Tips 

There are many more tutorials to add anyone at any point in their research. 

Take advantage of this and many other great features of Ancestral Quest 15 today, click here to purchase, download and start enjoying this great program which helps you grow your family tree with only a few clicks.

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...Claire ;)

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AQ Works in Windows 10

Windows 10 was released and with a new operating system comes questions of what programs will continue to work and what programs will have problems in the new operating system?

Ancestral Quest is one of the programs that will continue to work without any difficulties as you consider upgrading your operating system to this newer version.

Currently there are a number of individual customers who have been using this without any problems.

Just a reminder of some of the great features in Ancestral Quest:

Research Timeline: The research timeline is intended to help you see clues that will assist you in researching your family history. This new tool allows you to see the events in a person's lifetime. Sometimes, when you see pertinent events that may have affected your ancestors, it draws your attention to other resources you could look at to learn more about them.

Color Coding: There is a filing system based on four colors that has gained popularity among genealogists over the past several years. This highly requested and anticipated feature utilizes that concept and allows you to add background colors to the name boxes for individuals and/or family lines. The color coding will display on various screens and reports in AQ.

Tags: Create your own set of Tags and assign up to three tags to the various individuals in your database. This has proved to be a wildly popular new feature--some users cannot live without them, now! The tags display on various screens and reports in AQ.

Fan Chart: The popular Fan Chart has just gotten better with two new options. With the color coding, you can now generate a Four-Color Fan Chart. You can also now include siblings in the first generation of the chart.

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...

Claire ;)

AQ Cues & Clues Blog:http://ancquest.blogspot.com/

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AQ: Portability and Mobile Applications

We are a very mobile society today and it seems that we want everything right there at our fingertips if at all possible.

In theory this is actually a great idea and many have taken this to reality and created many applications that individuals today can put on their cell phones, smart phones, iPads and Androids, it truly is an amazing time we live in to think that with a few clicks one can locate the nearest place to eat or sleep, even a place to pay the least amount of funds for a gallon of gas or play your favorite game.

Enter genealogists and family historians, there are applications that aid one to access an online tree and most are done very well, however, some may want to access their personal tree through their current software. 

Ancestral Quest has provided this through AQ2Go which allows you to put your program on a flash drive or a portable hard drive. The directions for this are found right on the website here: http://www.ancquest.com/AQ2Go.htm.

Others may not wish to use this portability and are concentrating more on an application, a smart phone or a tablet. Currently the program does run on any tablet that has the full Windows program on it, so the program runs on an Asus ME400 which is a full Windows tablet or any tablet that runs the full Windows program. An article about 10 good Windows tablets is provided on ZDNet.

For other solutions check out some of the following links:

Anroid: http://www.ancquest.com/add-ons.htm#droid_apps

IOS: http://www.ancquest.com/add-ons.htm#iOS_apps

Additionally there are articles on this subject in the FamilySearch Research Wiki:

Android: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Accessing_Ancestral_Files_on_Android_Portable_Devices

IOS: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Accessing_Ancestral_Files_on_iPad_Portable_Devices

Regardless of which solution you choose, one of these will work for you!

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...

Claire ;)

AQ Cues & Clues Blog:http://ancquest.blogspot.com/

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 gfindlay@ancquest.com

AQ: Updating Ordinance Work..

Keeping up with completed temple work can sometimes be overwhelming, however, with just a few clicks using Ancestral Quest, you can update those individuals in your database who have already been linked to FamilySearch Family Tree.

Once you've opened AQ, go to FamilySearch from the top menu bar and click on "Ordinance Reservation and Tracking System" as follows:

This will take you to this screen 

Click on "Update Ordinances" which takes you to this screen

Depending on how many records need to be updated will depend on how long it will take. Once done, your records will be updated.

Take advantage of linking and synching your family file, in this way you'll be able to update more of your database as time goes on.

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...
Claire ;)
AQ Cues & Clues
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AQ: PAF to AQ - A Simple Task

     Are you a PAF User switching to Ancestral Quest and confused on how this is done?

     Generally individuals who are switching from PAF to AQ have been using PAF for years. It is because of the special relationship between these two software programs that switching from one to the other is rather simple.

     The windows version of PAF was created from the code provided to FamilySearch by Incline Software in 1999. PAF 4 was nearly identical to Ancestral Quest Version 3, except for the different name and a few other minor changes. PAF 5 went through some additional changes before its final release in 2002.

     Over the years, Incline Software has continued to improve upon the software, the resulting effects are that PAF users will feel right at home and be able to continue to use features they have come to expect along with new features that were created since 1999.

     When choosing to switch to Ancestral Quest, one has the option of trying out the free AQ Basic version or purchasing the full version of AQ 14, either way one will be able to view those PAF files very easily.

     Download the product you have chosen, AQ Basics or AQ 14 and install it to your computer. Once insttalled you will see an AQ Icon on your desktop like this:

Double click this icon to open up the program which will be just an empty database at this point.

     It is at this point that you look for your .paf file and double click, if you don't remember where your PAF file is, you can click on the "Search" button and the program will search for your PAF files:

     Click on the PAF file and then click on Open and your database will open up inside of Ancestral Quest!

     Note that one is in Ancestral Quest as shown in the top left hand corner and you have opened a PAF file which is evident in the lower right hand corner. At this point you can choose to continue using your database as a PAF file or convert it to an AQ file. Converting to an AQ file is covered in one of the two videos.

     We've created two videos to help with PAF files, enjoy!

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...
Claire ;)
AQ Cues & Clues
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 gfindlay@ancquest.com